October 2018: Private School Confidential

This page describes the contents of an issue of Washingtonian magazine. Subscribers get exclusive early access through our print and digital editions. Most of our feature stories are later published online and linked below.

With our snowball fights and kickball leagues, Washingtonians have long cultivated a kid’s sense of fun. Enter escape rooms—and Ginger Flesher-Sonnier, who spun that spirit into a lucrative art form. By Amanda Whiting.

Sy Hersh, the man who uncovered the My Lai massacre and Abu Ghraib, has lately appeared on Alex Jones’s Infowars and Kremlin-aligned RT.. Photograph by Alamy.

These days, America’s foremost investigative journalist is operating more in the margins than ever, riding the bench in the Trump era and touting alternative histories that border on conspiracy theories. Our reporter takes a trip inside the head of Seymour Hersh. By Ben Wofford.